To clarify my original comment - when someone claims they can memorize a certain text, the way to verify the claim is to find the text. It only matters that you appear as if you did.Īnd anyone looking on can go around saying things like "either it's a massive conspiracy or that lady really has extraordinary abilities!". "How did she know?!" Well, you didn't- but it doesn't matter. After that, those couple of "hits" will probably become ardent supporters of yours, and the best advertisement for your medium business. Once they start giving birth, it's very likely that you'll have hit the right gender a couple of times or so. You write the word "boy" on half and the word "girl" on the other half, seal each in an envelope and hand them to a dozen pregnant women, telling them to open it only after they've given birth (it makes no difference that they'll open it before anyway). For instance, my favourite trick requires nothing but a dozen or so pieces of paper. There's all sorts of other possibilities between "it's a conspiracy" and "it's a miracle" (both of which are equally unlikely btw). So maybe that "ample evidence" was fabricated. It's not that hard to imagine and it's actually the done thing in mentalist shows, even to the point that, as I say in another comment, there is a name for people planted in audiences to do that sort of thing: "shill". or, the people that person met were working for him and they asked him about facts they knew the person had memorised. Except, how do you know when the Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place? That's the other half of the claim- and it's easy to fake: I can fail to recall a fact a million times and get it right once, and people will still be amazed by my memory powers and tell each other I got great memory because I remembered it the once. You're saying it doesn't matter, and I have amazing memory powers anyway, because I remember the Battle of Maloyaroslavets. One does not follow from the other, so you really have no way to tell whether I really read the papers in 1812, or whether I'm just bamboozling you about my amazing memory powers. ![]() Here's my evidence "I know that on 24 October, 1812, the Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place near Moscow". That's my claim: "I read in the papers, on 24 October, 1812, that the Battle of Maloyaroslavets was taking place near Moscow". You only know that I know the Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on that day and year. It matters because if the source is not what they say it was, then either they didn't memorise the fact from the source they say they did, in which case maybe they just looked the fact up very recently instead of on the day they say they did, or they don't remember where they read the fact in the first place which means they don't have such a good memory as you think they do.įor example - if you tell me you were born on October 24, 1812, and I tell you that on that day the Battle of Maloyaroslavets took plase near Moscow, and that I read it in the papers on that day- how do you know that I really read it in the papers on that day? You don't.
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